Victor Andres Triay, associate professor of history at Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Connecticut, is the author of Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program (UPF, 1998). Triay, whose parents left Cuba in 1960, grew up in Miami, Florida. His essays and short stories have appeared in New to North America: Writings by Immigrants, Their Children, and Grandchildren and in other anthologies.
From the interviews: My [pregnant] wife once asked me, 'How is it possible you are not thinking of your child?' I told her, 'It is precisely because of that child and the two others I have here that I am going. I plan to return to my fatherland, and I don't want a Communist homeland.""' - Jorge Marquet; ""One of the sad things that has happened over this period in the history of Cuba is that historians have not given credit to the idealism of those who turned against the revolution. We were really full of good will and wanted to make Cuba better."" - Eduardo Zayas-Bazan; ""[A] feeling of duty to defend our faith was what motivated my husband.... What made me give my blessing to his activities were my own feelings of duty."" - Myrna Pardo Millan (widowed by the invasion)
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